Sahil Lavingia, founder and CEO of Gumroad and author of the new book “The Minimalist Entrepreneur” joins the show with Scott Kitun. Scott and Sahil share their passion for the changes coming to investing such as equity crowdfunding and retail investor movement. Sahil earlier this year raised $5 million in one of the fastest filled…
Andrew Gluck, GP at irrvrntVC, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Andrew runs through his career from working with name brands, cofounding his own agency to getting into venture capital and how he fell in love with startups. Scott and Andrew trade stories and ideas about working with founders and other VCs, the pros/cons of…
Mike Gioseffi, host of The Ringer’s Sports Cards Nonsense podcast, joins the show to walk Scott through the business of trading cards. Mike isn’t your typical sports-media jock, grew up in the construction industry before he started a sports card business in 2016. He talks to Scott about building the podcast off a experimental Facebook…
Scott Melker isn’t your conventional trader. With a decades long career as a musician/DJ, he isn’t what you’d expect to be an investor, crypto enthusiast and “Influencer of the Year” according to Binance (a major crypto trading platform). Scott shares his story how he transitioned from music to finance, how he caught onto the crypto…
Shayna Harris from Supply Change Capital, a fund focused on the future of food, culture and sustainability, joins the show. Shayna shares how by 2045 when the “minority” becomes the “majority”, food choices will change and the founders that serve minority communities in the food industry today will be incredibly successful then. She also talks…
Lisa Carmen Wang has learned a lot as an accomplished Olympic-gymnast, founder and investor. And after getting her first company SheWorx acquired by our friends at equity crowdfunding platform Republic, she’s on a mission to democratize investing and financial freedom to those typically kept outside of start up investing. Besides her current role as Head…
Robinhood may have taken center stage in the GameStop/WallStreetBets bonanza, but plenty of finance apps like M1 Finance were impacted by the freeze on certain stocks because of clearing firms. M1’s founder and CEO Brian Barnes comes back on the show to discuss the the $GME fall out, why the situation was handled so poorly,…
Scott Kitun talks to self-made hedge fun manager, Emmet Peppers. The founder of Good Soil Investment, Emmet grew his money from investing $30,000 – including a massive bet on Tesla – into $70 million. Emmet talks about jumping from the mail room into investing without day trading experience, how buying a Tesla got him down…
Ever grappled with the lack of financial literacy in this country? Or are tired of wasting money on toys that your kid or someone else’s kid will use for 5 minutes? EarlyBird lets you accomplish it all by essentially being the Acorns for kids. You start an account, put in a set amount of money…
CEO of Obie. Insurance tech has been an industry ripe for disruption with a slew of companies like ClearCover, CoverWallet, Kin and Vouch making waves recently. Obie, a combo insurance brokerage and risk management platform is geared to join the fray by focusing on serving real estate investors from multiunit to single family residences (SFRs).…